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Title: MLA Style: Two Parts


1
MLA Style Two Parts
  • Works Cited Page
  • Parenthetical Citations

2
Works Cited Page
  • A complete list of every source that you make
    reference to in your essay
  • Provides the information necessary for a reader
    to locate and retrieve any sources cited in your
    essay.

3
A Sample Works Cited Page
Smith 12 Works Cited Dickens, Charles.
Bleak House. 1852-1853. New York
Penguin, 1985. ---. David Copperfield.
1849-1850. New York Houghton Mifflin Company,
1958. Miller, J. Hillis. Charles Dickens The
World and His Novels. Bloomington U of Indiana
P, 1958. Zwerdling, Alex. Esther Summerson
Rehabilitated. PMLA 88 (May 1973) 429-439.
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Works Cited Some Examples
  • Book
  • Byatt, A. S. Babel Tower. New York Random
    House, 1996.
  • Article in a Magazine
  • Klein, Joe. Dizzy Days. The New Yorker 5 Oct.
    1998 40-45.
  • Web page
  • Poland, Dave. The Hot Button. Roughcut. 26
    Oct. 1998. Turner Network Television. 28 Oct.
    1998 ltwww.roughcut.comgt.

5
Works Cited List
  • A newspaper article
  • Tommasini, Anthony. Master Teachers Whose
    Artistry Glows in Private. New York Times 27
    Oct. 1998 B2.
  • A source with no known author
  • Cigarette Sales Fall 30 as California Tax
    Rises. New York Times 14 Sept. 1999 A17.

6
Works Cited List
  • A TV interview
  • McGwire, Mark. Interview with Matt Lauer. The
    Today Show. NBC. WTHR, Indianapolis. 22 Oct.
    1998.
  • A personal interview
  • Mellencamp, John. Personal interview. 27 Oct.
    1998.

7
When Should You Use Parenthetical Citations?
  • When quoting any words that are not your own
  • Quoting means to repeat another source word for
    word, using quotation marks

8
When Should You Use Parenthetical Citations?
  • When summarizing facts and ideas from a source
  • Summarizing means to take ideas from a large
    passage of another source and condense them,
    using your own words
  • When paraphrasing a source
  • Paraphrasing means to use the ideas from another
    source but change the phrasing into your own
    words

9
Handling Quotes in Your Text
  • Authors last name and page number(s) of quote
    must appear in the text
  • Romantic poetry is characterized by the
    spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings
    (Wordsworth 263).
  • Wordsworth stated that Romantic poetry was
    marked by a spontaneous overflow of powerful
    feelings (263).

10
Handling Parenthetical Citations
  • Sometimes more information is necessary
  • More than one author with the same last name
  • (W. Wordsworth 23) (D. Wordsworth 224)
  • More than one work by the same author
  • (Joyce, Portrait 121) (Joyce, Ulysses 556)
  • Different volumes of a multivolume work
  • (1 336)
  • Citing indirect sources
  • (Johnson qtd. in Boswell 2450)

11
Handling Parenthetical Citations
  • If the source has no known author, then use an
    abbreviated version of the title
  • Full Title California Cigarette Tax Deters
    Smokers
  • Citation (California A14)
  • If the source is only one page in length or is a
    web page with no apparent pagination
  • Source Dave Polands Hot Button web column
  • Citation (Poland)

12
Handling Long Quotations
  • David becomes identified and defined by James
    Steerforth, a young man with whom David is
    acquainted from his days at Salem House. Before
    meeting Steerforth, David accepts Steerforths
    name as an authoritative power
  • There was an old door in this playground, on
    which the boys had a custom of carving their
    names. . . . In my dread of the end of the
    vacation and their coming back, I could not read
    a boys name, without inquiring in what tone and
    with what emphasis he would read, Take care of
    him. He bites. There was one boya certain J.
    Steerforthwho cut his name very deep and very
    often, who I conceived, would read it in a rather
    strong voice, and afterwards pull my hair.
    (Dickens 68)
  • For Steerforth, naming becomes an act of
    possession, as well as exploitation. Steerforth
    names David for his fresh look and innocence, but
    also uses the name Daisy to exploit David's
    romantic tendencies (Dyson 122).

13
Handling Quotes in Your Text
  • There are many different combinations and
    variations within MLA citation format.
  • If you run into something unusual, look it up!
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